Shade-roller bracket.



G. D. CARON. SHADE ROLLER BRACKET. APPLICATION 11.11!) 0019.2, 012.

Patented July 28, 1914.

GEORGE D. GABON, 0F DANIELSON, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR T0 JOSEPH 1101M",

DANIELSON, CONNECTICUTJ SHADE-ROLLER BRACKET.

, Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 22, 1812.

"atcntcd duly lit Serial No. 727,221.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Gnonor. D. Canon, a citizen of the- United States, residing at Danielson, in the county of Windham and State of Connecticut, have invented new and useful Improvements in Shade-Roller Brackets, of which the following is a specification.

brackets, and has for an object to provide a. bracket of this character which can be pressed from a single piece of suitable sheet metal and which will be of a design wherein means are provided for holding the shade roller against accidental displacement from the bracket.

In the drawin forming a portion of this specification an in which like numerals of reference indicate similar parts in the several views: Figure 1 is a perspective view of the companion shade brackets showing a roller operatively associated therewith, the roller being in dotted lines. Fi 2 is a side elevation of one of the brackets, the washer being shown in section.

The brackets 1 and 2, shown in Fig. 1 of the drawing, are each stamped or pressed from a single piece of suitable sheet metal and each is formed to provide a supporting shank 3 which is formed at its outer end to providea head 4 and at its inner end to provide a shoulder, 5 from which extends an attaching shank 6 which is threaded through the major port-ion of its length and preferably pointed at its outer end, as shown, the material from which the bracket is stamped being of the same thickness throughout. At the inner end the shank 6 has mounted thereon a guard washer 7 which is ada ted to bear against the window frame on w rich the bracket is adjusted, the shoulder 5 of the bracket being designed to bear against the washer so that the inward adjustment of the brackets in the frame is limited. From this construction it will be seen that both brackets can be accurately set upon the frame so as to hold the shade roller in pan allel relation with respect to the window.

The head 4 at the outer end of the shank 3 of the bracket 1 is disposed substantially wholly below the plane of the said shank, and as illustrated, the head is formed with a retaining slot 8 for the rectangular spring tension trunnion of the shade roller. The inner wall of the slot inclined down- This invention relates to shade roller slot described is such that all of wardly, as at 9, and the upper end all the wall disposed innnediatcly opposite the downwardly and inwardly inclined at 3 10 at the inner end of the shank: outer wall 11 of the slot extends downwr l and forwardly toward the wall tl of H and it is connected therewith by the do h wardly and outwardly inclined bottom wall 12 of the slot. The slot is formed to pro vide a guard shoulder 13 which is located immediately beneath the inner end oil" the shank 3, as shown. The constrluttiou oi the its walls are arranged in intersecting planes with respect to each other so that the lowest point at the 1 slot is directly beneath the guard, shoulder 13. In view thereof, it will be observed that when the springtension rectangular trunnion of the shade roller is positioned in the slot 8 it willbe disposed therein directly beneath the said guard shoulder 13 and in juxtaposition with the outer wall ll o'f' the slot, the said wall 11 operating to directthe trunnion toward the guard shoulder so that the samewill be engaged by the shoulder on accidental u ward movement of the trun nion in the t. With a View oi facilitating the engagement of the trunnion in the slot the inclined surface 10 at the inner end of the shank 3 extends upwardly beyond the upper end of the wall 9, acting; as a guide so as to cause the trunnion of the roller to be readily extended into the receiving slot of the bracket. The shank .l of the bracket 2 has its head 4 disposed substantially below the plane of the shank and it is formed centrally with an opening 14 for receiving the cylindrical fixed trunnion oi the shade roller. The washer 7 on the threaded shank 6 of each bracket is loose so that when the shoulder of the bracket brought to bear against the washer the latter will not rotate against the surface of the window frame. From this construction itywill be seen that I guard against marring the window frame on attaching the bracket thereto, a

I claim A shade roller bracket comprising a member provided with an integral attaching por tion and a head carried by the attaching portion and having a trunnion receiving slot therein, including outer walls lying to oneside of the vertical center of the head and arranged in substantially superimposed relation, a shoulder connecting said outer ltltl Hill 61D new walls with each other and extending at right angles to the plane o'fisaid Walls, an inner wall terminating atits outer end slightly below the uppermost outer wall and inclined dounwzu'tlly ancl outwardly in. the direction of the vertical (-enler of the head and toward the lower end of the lowermost outer wall so tljmet the slut of an inreasecl width intermediate its upper zunl lowel" ends and then rest -etecl from its intemnelflinte portion and mlwlly flawed tovthe im'nei' end of the head and a connecting bottom Wall lying parallel with the shoulder and serving when engaged against the trunnion t0 hold the latter opei'atively disposed beneath said shoulder. e

In testimony whereof 'i affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

, GrE'ORG T) BARON. Witnesses:

@LIVER E. GETTY, I Lou s A. WOWARD. 

